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1 Item 1 - Cover Page Dennis Matthew Breier d/b/a Fairwater Wealth Management Dennis M. Breier 16W455 S. Frontage Road Suite 311 Burr Ridge, IL (630) September 9, 2014 This brochure supplement provides information about Dennis Breier that supplements the Fairwater Wealth Management disclosure brochure. You should have received a copy of that brochure that describes the investment advisory services offered through Fairwater Wealth Management, an investment advisor firm. Please contact Fairwater Wealth Management at the telephone number above or at if you did not receive Fairwater Wealth Management s brochure or if you have any questions about the contents of the supplement. Additional information about Dennis Breier is available on the SEC s website at Page 1 of 5

2 Item 2 - Educational Background and Business Experience This section of the brochure supplement includes the supervised person s name, age (or year of birth), formal education after high school, and business background (including an identification of the specific positions held) for the preceding five years. Dennis Breier Year of birth: 1982 Education The following information details your Financial Advisor s formal education. If a degree was attained, the type of the degree will be listed next to the name of the institution. If a degree is not listed, the Financial Advisor attended the institution but did not attain a degree. University of Iowa 08/ /2007 Illinois Wesleyan University; B.A. 08/ /2004 Business Experience The following information details your Financial Advisor s business experience for at least the past 5 years. Fairwater Wealth Management Investment Adviser Representative/Owner 08/ Present LPL Financial LLC Registered Representative & Investment Adviser Representative 04/2013 Present Citigroup Financial Advisor 07/ /2013 ING Financial Partners, Inc. Registered Representative 10/ /2011 The Breier Group Registered Representative 01/ /2009 Thrivent Financial For Lutherans Financial Representative 02/ /2009 Thrivent Investment Management, Inc. Registered Representative Page 2 of 5

3 01/ /2009 Professional Designations The following provides information on professional designation(s) that your Financial Advisor earned. Your financial advisor does not currently have a professional designation(s). Item 3 - Disciplinary Information This section includes any legal or disciplinary events and material to a client's or prospective client's evaluation of the supervised person. Your financial advisor has no legal or disciplinary events required to be disclosed in response to this item. There may be items that are contained on or that you may wish to review and consider in your evaluation of your advisor's background. Item 4 - Other Business Activities This section includes any relationship between the advisory business and the supervised person s other financial industry activities that creates a material conflict of interest with clients and describes the nature of the conflict and generally how it is addressed. If the supervised person is actively engaged in any investment-related business or occupation, including if the supervised person is registered, or has an application pending to register, as a broker-dealer, registered representative of a broker-dealer, futures commission merchant ( FCM ), commodity pool operator ( CPO ), commodity trading advisor ( CTA ), or an associated person of an FCM, CPO, or CTA, the business relationship, if any, between the advisory business and the other business is disclosed below. Registered Representative: Your financial advisor is also a broker or registered representative of LPL Financial and may receive commissions and other types of compensation for the sale of securities. The potential for the receipt of commissions may give a broker an incentive to recommend investment products based on the compensation received, rather than on the client's needs. However, your financial advisor may only recommend securities products that he or she believes are suitable for you. If you have any questions regarding the compensation your financial advisor receives when recommending a product, you should ask your financial advisor. You are under no obligation to purchase investment products through your financial advisor. Investment Adviser Representative: Your financial advisor is also an investment adviser representative of LPL Financial and may receive advisory fees if you open an advisory account. The potential for the receipt of advisory fees may give an investment adviser representative an incentive to recommend investment products based on the advisory fees received, rather than on the client s needs. However, your financial advisor, in his or her fiduciary capacity, may only recommend products that he or she believes are in your best interests. If you have any questions regarding the advisory fees your financial advisor receives when recommending an advisory account, you should ask your financial advisor. You are under no obligation to open an advisory account through your financial advisor. Insurance Agent: Your financial advisor is also a licensed insurance agent and may offer fixed and variable life Page 3 of 5

4 insurance products and receive normal and customary commissions as a result of any purchases made by clients. The client is under no obligation to purchase fixed or variable life insurance through me on a commissionable basis. In addition, your financial advisor may receive other compensation such as fixed or variable life trails. The potential for receipt of commissions and other compensation gives him or her an incentive to recommend insurance products based on the compensation received, rather than on the client s needs. To address this, disclosure is made to the client at the time purchase is made, identifying the nature of the transaction or relationship, the role to be played by me, and any compensation(e.g., commissions, trails) to be paid by the client and/or received by the insurance agent. Item 5 - Additional Compensation This section includes details regarding if someone who is not a client provides an economic benefit to the supervised person for providing advisory services. For purposes of this Item, economic benefits include sales awards and other prizes, but not the supervised person s regular salary, if any. Your financial advisor, in his capacity as an investment adviser representative of LPL Financial, may receive economic benefits from persons other than clients in connection with advisory services. Your financial advisor provides services in an Asset Management account and may recommend mutual funds. Only no-load and load-waived mutual funds are available to be purchased in such asset management accounts. However, some of these mutual funds may pay distribution or service fees (e.g., 12b-1 fees). When your financial advisor provides investment advisory services, he is a fiduciary under the Investment Advisers Act and has a duty to act in your best interest and to make full and fair disclosure to you of all material facts and conflicts of interest. Your financial advisor may receive compensation from product sponsors. Compensation may include such items as gifts valued at less than $100 annually, an occasional dinner or ticket to a sporting event, or reimbursement in connection with educational or training events or marketing or advertising initiatives. Such compensation may not be tied to the sale of any products. Your financial advisor receives compensation as a result of your participation in LPL Financial advisory programs. LPL Financial shares a portion of the account fee you pay with him, which may be more than what he would receive at another investment advisor firm. This compensation may also include other types of compensation, such as bonuses, awards or other things of value offered by LPL Financial. LPL Financial may pay him in different ways, such as payments based on production, awards of stock options to purchase shares of LPL Financial s parent company, LPL Financial Holdings Inc., reimbursement of fees that he may pay to LPL Financial for items such as administrative services, and other things of value such as free or reduced-cost marketing materials, payments in connection with the transition of association from another broker/dealer or investment advisor firm to LPL Financial, advances of advisory fees, or attendance at LPL Financial s national conference or top producer forums and events. LPL Financial may pay your advisor this compensation based on his overall business production and/or on the amount of assets serviced in LPL Financial advisory programs. Therefore, the amount of this compensation may be more than what he would receive if a client participated in other LPL Financial programs, programs of other investment advisor firms or paid separately for investment advice, brokerage and other client services. Therefore, he may have a financial incentive to recommend an advisory program over other programs and services. However, he may only recommend a program or service that he believes is suitable for you. Your financial advisor, in his capacity as an investment adviser representative of LPL Financial, may act as a referral agent to third party investment advisor firms and he may receive referral compensation from such investment advisor firms. In such case, you are Page 4 of 5

5 provided disclosure about the arrangement and the compensation to be received at the time of the referral. Your financial advisor may have received a loan from LPL Financial in order to assist him with transitioning his business to LPL Financial s custodial and brokerage platforms. This loan may be forgiven by LPL Financial based on his years of service for LPL Financial and the scope of business engaged in with LPL Financial, including the amount of advisory account assets. This presents a potential conflict of interest in that your financial advisor has a financial incentive to recommend that you engage with him and LPL Financial for services in order for the loan to be forgiven. However, to the extent your financial advisor recommends you engage him and LPL Financial, it is because he believes that the advisory program or service is suitable for you. Item 6 - Supervision This section explains how Fairwater Wealth Management supervises the supervised person, including how the advice the supervised person provided to clients is monitored. Dennis Breier, Chief Compliance Officer, is responsible for administering the Fairwater Wealth Management policies and procedures for investment advisory activities and for regularly evaluating their effectiveness. Dennis Breier may be reached at (630) Item 7 - Requirements for State-Registered Advisers In addition to the events listed in Item 3 of Part 2B, if the supervised person has been involved in one of the events listed below, disclose all material facts regarding the event. An award or otherwise being found liable in an arbitration claim alleging damages in excess of $2,500, involving any of the following: (a) an investment or an investment-related business or activity; (b) fraud, false statement(s), or omissions; (c) theft, embezzlement, or other wrongful taking of property; (d) bribery, forgery, counterfeiting, or extortion; or (e) dishonest, unfair, or unethical practices. 2. An award or otherwise being found liable in a civil, self-regulatory organization, or administrative proceeding involving any of the following: (a) an investment or an investment-related business or activity; (b) fraud, false statement(s), or omissions; (c) theft, embezzlement, or other wrongful taking of property; (d) bribery, forgery, counterfeiting, or extortion; or (e) dishonest, unfair, or unethical practices. Dennis Breier has not been involved in any of the above listed events. If the supervised person has been the subject of a bankruptcy petition, disclose that fact, the date the petition was first brought, and the current status. Dennis Breier has not and is not the subject of a bankruptcy petition. Page 5 of 5

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